Renowned Breast Cancer Activist Visits Hadassah Medical Center
4-May-2010
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Dr. Felicia Knaul (left) and her assistants, with Dr. Ilana
Kadmon (right) in the Hadassah-Henrietta Szold School of Nursing |
Dr. Felicia Knaul, Director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative, which aims to expand cancer care and control in developing countries, visited the Hadassah Medical Center in mid-March and discussed the potential for collaborative projects with Dr. Ilana Kadmon, Hadassah’s Breast Care Clinical Nurse Specialist.
Dr. Knaul met with Hadassah Director General Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, Prof. Orly Manor, Dean of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Braun School of Public Health, Dr. Miri Rom, Dean of the Henrietta Szold School of Nursing, and Prof. Tamar Peretz, Director of the Sharett Institute of Oncology.
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Dr. Knaul with Judith Steiner, former head of
Hadassah’s Henrietta Szold School of Nursing, the
first graduate of the School of Nursing and, today,
Chair of its Alumni Association. |
Dr. Knaul had been invited to the Medical Center by Dr. Kadmon, who met her during a Breast Cancer Awareness Week sponsored by Hadassah Mexico. While visiting Hadassah, Dr. Knaul gave a presentation on breast cancer prevention at Hadassah’s School of Nursing. A breast cancer survivor herself, Dr. Knaul has been an activist on behalf of early diagnosis for many years.
